IRCTCs New 'Station-Based e-Catering' Service Allows You To Order From Your Favourite Food Plazas

19/10/2015 11:33 AM IST
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Lunch, high tea, dinner, breakfast (non-veg = omlette and veg = upma) while travelling from New Delhi (H Nizamuddin) to Madgaon (Goa) in II-AC Substantial, healthy and works for me. Add to this, as much tea and coffee as you wanted. Food is part of the ticket price here.
On the way back, in the Goa Sampark Kranti, it was not as good so no photos either.

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KOLKATA -- The Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has launched a pilot project of a 'station-based e-catering' service allowing passengers to order meals as per their choice, which will be delivered at stations from popular private caterers.

In the first phase of the project, all trains passing through 45 specified railway stations, including nine in the east zone, namely Howrah, Sealdah, Guwahati, New Jalpaiguri, Patna, Bhubaneswar, Visakhapatnam, Kharagpur and Mughalsarai have been named.

"Station-based e-catering will be only for stations and not on moving trains. The service will allow passengers to either order meals online at www.ecatering.irctc.co.in or by calling 0120-2383892-99/ 1800-1034-139 (toll free) or by sending SMS Meal to 139 with details of PNR and seat number and the meals will be delivered at their berth," IRCTC group General Manager, East Zone Debashis Chandra told .

Besides food from IRCTC-managed food plazas and fast food units, reputed food chains like McDonald's, KFC, Switz Foods, Only Alibaba, Dominos, Haldiram, Bikanerwala, Nirualas, Sagar Ratna, Pizza Hut which have a wide variety in menu have entered into a tie-up with IRCTC to serve the passengers passing through these stations.

"On receiving the meals, passengers have an option of making payment online or through cash on delivery mode," Chandra said, adding, the delivery of food would be made through authorised persons.